Improvement in meat-cutting apparatus



. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. MORRELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEAT-CUTTING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,804, dated January19, 1875; application tiled I December 28, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that 1, JAMES A. MORRELL, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Meat-CuttingMachines, of which the following is a specification:

i In the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, Figure lis a vertical transverse section through the axis of the cutters. Fig. 2is a similar section on a plane at right angles thereto.

The same letters are employed in both figures in the indication ofidentical parts.

The frame consists of a base andtwo vertical standards, A and B, uponwhich the different portions of the mechanism are sustained. G is arevolving bottom, turning around the standard A, and having a rim, 0,extending up high enough to contain the exterior casing- D, and make ajoint to prevent theescape of the meat. The casing D is attached to thestandards A and B, as shown, and comes-down within the rim 0,WhlGh'lGVOlVBS around its lower edge, and has an opening at D, to giveaccess to theinterior. The bottom 0 is attached to a beveled wheel, E,having a central sleeve, E, which surrounds and turns upon the standardA. I It derives motion from the beveled pinion F on the overhung end ofa short shaft,

, which has its bearings in the standard B, and

is turned by the crank G. On the same shaft, F, isa spur-wheel, H,placed outside of the standard B, and driving a spur-pinion, H,, on theshaft I, which has one of its bearings in the standard B, and the otherin the standard A. This shaft carries the cutters K. These are disks ofsteel, sharpened upon the periphery, and attached on the shaft I bybeveled collars K, formed by cutting a tube diagonally. These collarsgive the knives an oblique position on the shaft, so that in revolvingthey, will traverse the bottom 0 like the edges of spiral threads,somewhat, and thereby slice all the pieces which may pass under them,therange of their lateral travel being sufficient to cause them totraverse the whole width of the bottom immediately under the knives. Todirect the meat carried on the bottom within the range of the action ofthe knives an inclined guide, L, is extended from the central standard,A, and curved in such form as to give proper direction to the meat. Thebottom and the knives, where they come in conjunction, are caused totravel in the same direction, like a pair of rolls.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent.is-

1. The circular cutters K, set obliquely on the shaft, substantially asset forth.

2. In combination, the oblique circular cut- J AS. A. MORRELL.

Witnesses S. H. GROSVENOR, R. B. DUNHAM.

